Michelle P's Thematic Unit Work 

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Thematic Unit Step 1
Possible Content Focuses:
1. The Land by Mildred Taylor
2. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
3. The Land - geography, people and places

Possible Themes
1. People and the Land
2. Where and how we live

I know that my 6th graders will be studying both The Land and Roll of Thunder during the time I teach my unit plan. There will also be an explicit focus in the geography strands of the common core curriculum. Since I am at Exploris, they have a strong focus in cross-content education and I will need to plan accordingly.

Thematic Unit Step 3

I. Organizing Questions
  • What is respect?
  • What is equality?
II. Goals
  • Read the novel
  • Learn about respect and equality
  • Learn more about America's history of civil rights
III. Objectives
  • Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
  • Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
  • Talk about the author's purpose in writing the novel
  • Describe the reasoning behind using dialect in the novel
IV. Supplemental Materials/Texts
V. Learning Activities
  • Defining Equality poem
  • Newspaper articles describing details in Paul's life
  • Character/Symbol Posters - assign each student a character or symbol to follow in the novel, write down quotes and where it is mentioned in the novel. turn it into a poster that shows how the character or symbol is important to the novel